Multicast for mobility protocol (MMP) for emerging Internet networks

This paper contains a design description for an IP-mobility protocol called multicast for mobility protocol (MMP). The protocol is intended to provide fast and efficient location management and routing for mobile hosts in internet networks. The general configuration of the protocol which is divided into two parts: global and local, or macro and micro mobility, makes it an optimal and attractive solution for the emerging internet-based mobility-enabled stub networks, referred to as IP access networks. This version of MMP contains various enhancements to the initial version such as the introduction of a new control message MMP instruct and protocol mechanisms for handling new protocol issues such as: paging, support for mobile sources, advance registrations, implementation adaptations. However, the initial main concepts of mobile IP-controlled macro mobility and micro mobility enabled by a sparse mode multicast protocol called core based trees (CBT) are still the main characteristics of the protocol